On Apr 24, 1:24 pm, Ed Dravecky <[email protected]> wrote:
> [email protected] <[email protected]> wrote:
> > Don't get me wrong; I love Ebert, but how did he make a million, let
> > alone have enough to give it away? Was the TV show that lucrative?
>
> The TV show ran for decades, he's got a number of books in print, and
> the syndicated column had to bring in a few bucks over the years. Oh,
> and I bet the newspaper pays him something, too. Given all of those
> revenue streams it doesn't surprise me that he's manged to accumulate
> a healthy amount of money over the course of his career.
Technically, Ebert isn't even a Sun-Times employee now. He sells his
services to the paper as the corporation "Roger Ebert & Co." Said
corporation also co-owns the trademark with the Siskel estate to
"Thumbs Up" and all of its variants.
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